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I've followed this otherwise excellent tutorial on getting Xen working with Ubuntu but am not able to get a console into my virtual machine (domU). I've got the extra = '2 console=xvc0' line in my /etc/xen/hostname_here.cfg file like they say, but am not able to get a console on it.
If I statically assign an IP to the VM I can SSH to it...

I've got a website that I've just uploaded onto the interwebs, and it's displaying differently using Firefox 3.0.1 on Ubuntu and WinXP.
Two things I've noticed on Ubuntu:
The favicon is missing
The background color isn't displaying (it's set in the stylesheet)
What have I done wrong? The CSS file is being fetched under Ubuntu, so ...

I've got a website that I've just uploaded onto the interwebs, and when using Firefox 3.0.1 on Ubuntu I don't see the favicon; Firefox 3.0.1 on WinXP shows it.
Why isn't the favicon displaying under Ubuntu? It's a favicon.ico file in the root directory, not referenced in the meta tags; would it work better as a GIF?
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I'm writing a few little bash scripts under Ubuntu linux. I want to be able to run them from the GUI without needing a terminal window to enter any input or view any output.
So far the only input required is a password for sudo - and gksudo handles that fine.
But I haven't found an easy way to show a message box yet. Is there some kind ...

I have a cron job on an Ubuntu Hardy VPS that only half works and I can't work out why. The job is a Ruby script that uses mysqldump to back up a MySQL database used by a Rails application, which is then gzipped and uploaded to a remote server using SFTP.
The gzip file is created and copied successfully but it's always zero bytes. Yet i...

I've recently switched to Linux on my work machine and, new to the Linux desktop environment, I'd like to find a decent ERD tool for database design. Booting back into my Windows partition every time I need to create a diagram is going to get unpleasant quickly. I looked at Dia, but didn't see any DB tools - only UML, networking, etc.
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I am using xampp on Windows, but I would like to use something closer to my server setup.
Federico Cargnelutti tutorial explains how to setup LAMP VMWARE appliance; it is a great introduction to VMware appliances, but one of the commands was not working and it doesn't describe how to change the keyboard layout and the timezone.
ps: the...

I want to log onto Stack Overflow using OpenID, but I thought I'd set up my own OpenID provider, just because it's harder :) How do you do this in Ubuntu?
Edit: Replacing 'server' with the correct term OpenID provider (Identity provider would also be correct according to wikipedia).
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I've been having a very tough time with VMWare tools for Ubuntu Hardy.
For some reason, vmware-install.pl finds fault with my linux headers. Saying the "address space size" doesn't match. I have resorted to vmware-any-any-update117 and here is the error I am getting now:
In file included from include/asm/page.h:3,
from ...

I recently installed Ubuntu on a VirtualBox VM ... it installed just fine (much easier than on VirtualPC). However, I'm unable to get internet access from the guest OS (ie. Ubuntu). Can anyone give me any pointers on how I might enable this?
The Host OS is Windows Vista, and the hardware is an IBM Lenovo.
Thanks! :-)
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I've created a few autorun script files on various USB devices that run bash scripts when they mount. These scripts run "in the background", how do I get them to run in a terminal window? (Like the "Application in Terminal" gnome Launcher type.)
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I want to use the Web Browser control within an mono application, but when I do get the error "libgluezilla not found. To have webbrowser support, you need libgluezilla installed." Installing the Intrepid Deb causes any application that references the web browser control to crash on startup with : 'Thread (nil) may have been prematurely...

I want to build a decently performing, but above all stable Linux system for home server use, on a reasonable budget.
Sadly, I have several bad experiences trying to install Linux on recently purchased hardware. Whilst pretty much every component runs on Windows, Linux support is sometimes flaky or just plain nonexistent.
Which off-the...

I have a small local network. Only one of the machines is available to the outside world (this is not easily changeable). I'd like to be able to set it up such that ssh requests that don't come in on the standard port go to another machine. Is this possible? If so, how?
Oh and all of these machines are running either Ubuntu or OS X.
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Jeff covered this a while back on his blog in terms of 32 bit Vista.
Does the same 32 bit 4 GB memory cap that applies in 32 bit Vista apply to 32 bit Ubuntu? Are there any 32 bit operating systems that have creatively solved this problem?
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We're planning to set up a XEN virtualization server using Ubuntu. I'm looking for any recommendations with regard to what to watch out for when buying hardware for the system.
Some information about our planned usage of the system:
The server is going to host 4 or 5 instances of a Linux/Apache/MySQL/J2EE stack. Each of those instances...

I have a laptop running Ubuntu that I would like to act as a Subversion server. Both for myself to commit to locally, and for others remotely. What are the steps required to get this working? Please include steps to:
get and configure Apache, and necessary modules (I know there are other ways to create a SVN server, but I would like it...

Hey folks,
I program with Emacs on Ubuntu (Hardy Heron at the moment), and I like the default text coloration in the Emacs GUI. However, the default text coloration when Emacs is run in the terminal is different and garish. How do I make the colors in the terminal match the colors in the GUI?
Thanks!
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